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Girl In The (Nature) Bubble
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, disease, health, humans, illness, warning, diet )

Leslie
- 68 days ago - oko-organic-clothing.blogspot.com
With the dawning of mass scale farming combined with the use of pesticides as a regular practice, plus adding in chems to our foods as preservatives, dyes and flavors I am not exactly sure how eating all this non food stuff isn't making us all run for...
Italy's Park of Monsters
Society & Culture  (tags: travel, society, arts, culture, humans, interesting, world )

Daphna
- 83 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Shaded by trees and lightly cloaked in a patina of moss, the massive stone figures stare down at the awestruck visitors. What kind of garden features the screaming face of a terrible ogre that's like a doorway to hell, a mythical giant hero literally tear
Eco Art: Drawing With Flower Petals and Natural Charcoal
Green Lifestyle  (tags: art, sustainable, recycling, interesting, healthy, greenliving, coolstuff, CoolStuff, eco-friendly, environment, design )

Leslie
- 83 days ago - oko-organic-clothing.blogspot.com
I pulled a few marigold petals off the flower and rubbed it hard against some cardboard...voila, it made an orange mark! Then I got some dark orange/red colored nasturtiums, more orange marigolds, and golden rod (yellow) flowers and decided to try and...
My Visit to the Long Branch Environmental Education Center
Green Lifestyle  (tags: environment, eco-friendly, family, garden, green, healthy, Sustainabililty, recycling, organic, sustainable, interesting, conservation, ecosystems )

Leslie
- 89 days ago - oko-organic-clothing.blogspot.com
The Enviro Center is not like some hippie haven/eco village but rather a logical, functional, and information packed community resource for anyone interested in learning about native plant species, perma culture, growing heirloom trees (such as chestnuts
Indian Corn: Corn of a Different Color
Green Lifestyle  (tags: gardening, fall decorating, maize, zea mays, Indian corn, planting corn, corn on the cob, fall decorating )

Joanne
- 92 days ago - examiner.com
Indian corn comes in many different colors. Native American growers have produced multi-colored, magenta, red, scarlet, pink, yellow, yellow-orange/gold, orange, bright blue, dark blue, light blue, black, purple, maroon, brown, white, and even cream..
Bear In The Bean Rows
Offbeat  (tags: animals, bizarre, humans, photos, unusual, safety, bears )

Leslie
- 92 days ago - oko-organic-clothing.blogspot.com
He eventually gets around to telling me the most wildest crazy thing I ever learned. He says "Bears clear their throats and sound jus' like people. One time I went hunting and smelled something. I heard them clear their throat and cough just like a man...
Teen Arrested in Miami Gardens Horse Killing
Animals  (tags: horse slaughter, arrest, money, animalcruelty, GoodNews )

Lone
- 94 days ago - miamiherald.com
When a Hialeah teenager offered someone $2,000 to help him kill two horses on Tuesday, what he didn't know was that police had wired his prospective cohort with a recording device.
Fall/Winter Organic Garden
Green Lifestyle  (tags: gardening, sustainable, Sustainabililty, organic, food, healthy, garden, environment )

Leslie
- 95 days ago - oko-organic-clothing.blogspot.com
This is the first time I am trying out a Fall & Winter organic garden and it's pretty exciting. Rather then having that feeling like life as I know it is about to end, it is a little bit like spring time all over again. I left all the bug repelling nast..
Wife, 107, Wants a Younger Man
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, humans, culture, world, society )

Suzybell
- 96 days ago - metro.co.uk
A 107-year-old woman is seeking her 23rd husband after fears her current 37-year-old hubby may find someone younger. Wook Kundor has separated from her husband Mohammed Noor Che Musa after he checked into a Kuala Lumper drug clinic.
Natural Plant Dye: Non Poisonous Sumac
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, CoolStuff, clothing, healthy, green, food, organic, sustainable, environment )

Leslie
- 96 days ago - oko-organic-clothing.blogspot.com
Not all sumac is the bad stuff that gives a person a poison ivy like reaction (like this), the sumac pictured here was used by native americans to make plant dyes and even a citrus tasting drink akin to lemonaid. Red sumac, also known as Staghorn, grows..
 
 
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